some of the reasons for
the boys, to follow up the track to the new world by ship from the
harbour of Hamburg.

right: Their parents farm in Westre. In
1900 they sold it and moved to the nearby village Süderlügum

Their parents names
were Detlef Jürgen PETERSEN and Christina JESSEN ...maybe these
names reoccur in following generations... Their ancestors are researched
until the 16th century...

The
black marked areas on this map of europe are the main territorries
of my research. At first Schleswig-Holstein
(with a part of Denmark) where my ancestors lived since at least
500 Years. (In all probalility for much longer) The most of them
in a region called Northern Frisia. A very concise region which
is formed by the Northern Sea.

And
the other main territory is East Prussia
with a part that
belongs to Russia nowadays. My Mother came to Northern Frisia in
1945 from this region as some of 12 million german refugees in the
2nd World War....
New in my focus are amongst others Hesse, Franconia and the cities
of Varel, Hamburg and Amsterdam
in the Netherlands.

The
brothers wich left their homes one by one in the 1880´s were
born in a small village called Westre in the former duchy of Schleswig,
department Tondern. In 1864 the prussians took this area from the
danish crown. Young men had now to absolve a military service for
five years. This and the fact that the farm will like tradition
be inherit by the youngest son, were probably